[Samba] AD DC DNS forwarder question

[Peter Milesson]

On 03.02.2023 22:24, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
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> On 03/02/2023 21:12, Peter Milesson via samba wrote:
>> Hi folks,
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>> I have set up a 3rd DC in my domain, as I'm going to decommision old 
>> stuff, and bring everything up to date. Everything seems OK so far.
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>> According to the Wiki, the DNS forwarder should be set in smb.conf. 
>> Should I set it in smb.conf on every DC?
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>> Is it not possible to use the RSAT-tools and set forwarders in the 
>> domain? That to me would seem the most logical.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Peter
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> If you are using the internal dns server, then you need to set the dns 
> forwarder(s) in each DC's smb.conf, that is where the server expects 
> to find them. If you use Bind9, then the forwarders go in the 
> named.conf files, because that is where Bind9 expects to find them. I 
> wouldn't know where Windows puts them, but perhaps, where ever it is, 
> it is somewhere were the Windows dns server expects to find them.
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> Rowland
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Hi Rowland,

Thanks for the information. Windows forwarders are set with the 
RSAT-tool suite under DNS. It would be great to be able to set it there 
for Samba also, just to make configuration tasks agnostic. But I guess 
it's not a development priority ;-)

Best regards,

Peter